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Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

age

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

alone

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

art

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

beauty

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

best

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

best

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

business

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

business

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

change

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

courage

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

courage

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

education

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

friendship

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

gardening

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

good

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

great

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

great

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

great

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

great

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

health

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

health

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

inspirational

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

inspirational

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

legal

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

life

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

life

Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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